Music from the Elizabethan Court: Ystradgynlais Band (1998)

[papoocanada]

sounds good but they play modern family of saxhorns, no cornett, no sackbutt, no serpent ??

[thebeatcreeper]

i really want to eat a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird

[h2310]

I think this piece is By William Byrd and is called "My Lord of Oxenford's March".

[Babejuda]

Great performance. Bravi! Which aspects are not particularly 'period' (as you've mentioned in your response to numbereightyseven?

[numbereightyseven]

Music doesn't get much better than this. I'm envious of those playing there. Can someone list a few composers' names of this style of music? My CD collection won't be complete without some of this.

[kkallebb]

Composers who work in this (English) style include William Brade, John Coprario, Augustine Bassano, John Bull, Matthew Locke, Anthony Holborne. Certain aspects of this particular performance are not particularly "period."

[numbereightyseven]

thanks.

[Mattexmo]

Ystradgynlais Band don't have period instruments. Being a brass band, you see!

[biancademonet]

Period instruments for this piece would have included sackbutts, cornetts, shawms, and percussion

[mink61]

@Mattexmo Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.